Anagarika Govinda Quotes
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
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I'm just trying to blur this very clear line we've drawn and are drawing over and over and over again between communities. Saying those are queer films and those are films. I would love for that line to disappear. For that frontier to be abolished once and for all.
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When you literally build a state of granite, it takes a certain toughness and perseverance as well as a unique blend of community and independence: a culture that also helps spur economic growth.
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I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.
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Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.
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The Purdue education was fine, but I wasn't ready to learn when I was at Purdue.
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I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.
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I'd been on a road trip right out of college, with a buddy of mine. It was uneventful. We didn't get laid. Although one time it was about 800 degrees and we were in Texas. We had shorts on and nothing else and somehow a motorcycle cop pulls up beside me and says, 'Come on, get on it, get on, go, go, go!' So I speeded up and it turns out we're in a huge state funeral. There are about 40 black Cadillacs in a row and then a green van called Mr Greenjeans, with two guys with no clothes in it.
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There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.
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Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
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Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'
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I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'
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Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.
